Table 1.

Parameter values for Schistosoma haematobium used in making model predictions of MDA impact (some directly estimated from age-intensity or prevalence profiles and some derived from the literature).

Parameter	Value	Source
Population size	500	–
Fecundity	3.6 eggs/female/sample	[26, 27]
Transmission intensity	R0 = 2.5	Fitted
Level of aggregation of parasites in host population	Negative binomial, k = 0.24	[28]
Adult worm life expectancy	4 years	[16, 17]
Praziquantel drug efficacy	99%	[27, 29]
Age specific contact rates ($\mathit{\beta }$) for the first dataset [25]	For 0–4, 5–11,12–20, 21+ years of age: 0.17, 1, 0.11, 0.035	Fitted
Contribution to the reservoir by contact age group ($\mathit{\rho }$) for the first dataset [25]	For 0–4, 5–11,12–20, 21+ years of age: 0.17, 1, 0.11, 0.035	Fitted
Age specific contact rates ($\mathit{\beta }$) for the second dataset [18]	For 0–4, 5–11, 12+ years of age: 0.0035, 1, 0.0037	Fitted
Contribution to the reservoir by contact age group ($\mathit{\rho }$) for the second dataset [18]	For 0–4, 5–11, 12+ years of age: 0.0035, 1, 0.0037	Fitted
Prevalence of infection	Percentage of population having > 0 eggs/10 ml	–
Heavy-intensity infection prevalence	Percentage of population having ≥ 50 eggs/10 ml	[2, 30]
Human demography	Based on Kenya’s demographic profile	–